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The Question – An Update On My Choices In NLEs
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Oh, dear! Sorry if I steered you in a wrong direction, there, but I still truly enjoy working with MC. If I had to choose one, it would probably be Pr, though. For the record, I’m not having the kind of problems you seem to be having with AMA. I find AMA on MC7 really effective, though I work almost exclusively with ProRes when using AMA, so that might have something to do with it. I just cut an entire season of promos (23) entirely with AMA, never transcoding at all. My playback, off a MacBook Pro, and out over tBolt to multiple monitors was stellar, and trim mode was very responsive. And, of course, I work exclusively within that Los Angeles environment you are talking about, so MC skills are pretty much required whether you like it or not.
As to the Modes, I used to agree with you and absolutely hated them. Once I absorbed the concept, however, I ceased to notice them, and now sort of miss them when I’m in Pr.
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[Chris Harlan] ” I just cut an entire season of promos (23) entirely with AMA, never transcoding at all. My playback, off a MacBook Pro, and out over tBolt to multiple monitors was stellar, and trim mode was very responsive.”
Brave man. Even Avid folks suggest that AMA is best used to just choose selects then transcode.
Scott Witthaus
Senior Editor/Post Production Supervisor
1708 Inc./Editorial
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I know – but its only inside that mega trim mode right? you have to access it via the cut points? It’s not really a thing – I just like to have a slip tool I can act on the video object. unless I’ve got this wrong.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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[Chris Harlan] “I still truly enjoy working with MC.”
Chris,
Of course, I posted the above knowing full well that there are those using it daily and enjoying it. No doubt some (but by no means all) of my issues would have been soothed by habit.
For me, it was a constant aggravation, relieved only by the promise of invoking the literary wrath of Aindreas.
Franz.
Edit: (to paraphrase the dystopia) I was quit when I came in here; I’m twice as quit now. Even if it means being one of the little people.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “I know – but its only inside that mega trim mode right? you have to access it via the cut points? It’s not really a thing – I just like to have a slip tool I can act on the video object. unless I’ve got this wrong.”
There are keyboard shortcuts for slip outside of the trim editor
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oh i take it all back so – no wait I still hate it.
https://vimeo.com/user1590967/videos http://www.ogallchoir.net promo producer/editor.grading/motion graphics
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With your timeline being the active window, use the trim keys (without being in trim mode) and they act as slip-mode. If you select a clip (either by clicking on it, or by using the ‘select’ function) then the trim keys act as slide-mode.
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[Scott Witthaus] “Brave man. Even Avid folks suggest that AMA is best used to just choose selects then transcode.
“He used Prores. That’s like…cheating! 😉 Whenever you AMA link a quicktime file with a native Avid codec (DNxHD, ProRes, etc) the AMA performance is very, very good. The horror stories happen with non-native formats — DSLR and GoPro, etc.
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[Franz Bieberkopf] “Chris,
Of course, I posted the above knowing full well that there are those using it daily and enjoying it.”
Certainly, Ulysses. But since I was apparently one of the sirens that brought you to the island, I felt an obligation to sing a bit.
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Hardly! As, I said I was using proRes, which Avid works with really, really well.
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